Co-created by writer-editor Stan Lee and penciller Jack Kirby, he debuted as Dr. Anthony Droom in Amazing Adventures #1, published in March 1961 (with a cover date of June 1961).

Over a year later, artist Steve Ditko approached Stan Lee with a new magic character called Mr.

[4] Considered a scholar of multiple fields, the brilliant Dr. Anthony Druid is originally a psychiatrist who then becomes an author and physician.

With the combined knowledge of both his Celtic ancestors and the Tibetan lama, Dr. Druid acts as a magic-based consultant and hero of Earth.

[1] The origin story was written by Stan Lee, penciled by Jack Kirby, and inked by Steve Ditko.

In the subsequent stories of Amazing Adventures, Droom continues to have an Asian appearance and is given a yellow skin tone.

Dr. Druid sported a red outfit in his role as hero and the new version of his origin story removed the idea that the appearance of his racial heritage is altered by magic.

Doctor Druid was one of the featured characters in the 2011 three-issue limited series Chaos War: Dead Avengers.

[13] His membership was tainted when he was mind-controlled by supervillainess the Terminatrix (at the time impersonating the space pirate Nebula) into manipulating the team on her behalf.

[15] He eventually regained control of his own mind and returned to Earth, where, after learning his true origin, he banished "Nebula" and became younger by magic.

He was briefly reunited with his former teammates while working with Doctor Strange during the Infinity War, and later became the leader of the Secret Defenders.

[18] He then abandoned his spandex costume and became even more of a real, traditional druid, a fact reflected by his taking on the simple name of "Druid" and the new nature of his nature powers,[19] but he let his feelings of rage and power lust take him over, went insane, was betrayed by his allies, and was finally killed by Hellstorm, the putative Son of Satan.

[24] During the Chaos War storyline, Doctor Druid is among the dead heroes brought back to life when Amatsu-Mikaboshi dominated the death realms.

Doctor Druid also revealed that Ogeode built him a massive crystal on top of his castle to amplify his mind-control abilities, which brought anyone in his part of Weirdworld under his thrall.

[28] Doctor Druid accompanied Monica Rappaccini to the meeting with Stark Unlimited's Board of Directors where only Iron Man and Melinda May opposed the merger.

It is also revealed that Doctor Druid is enthralled to Belasco who is wanting to claim the souls of the board members.

Tony Stark tells Doctor Druid to teleport the board members back to their homes.

Doctor Druid's hypnotic abilities enable him to achieve numerous illusory effects, including invisibility, altering the appearance of himself and others, and the projection of illusionary objects or beings.

Doctor Druid has limited precognitive abilities and can sense the presence of recent uses of magic and trace them to their sources.

The stone was able to raise the dead, absorb the life-force of another, and accelerate or reverse the passage of time within a confined area, though sometimes random time-related side effects occurred.

[volume & issue needed] Doctor Druid can also call upon the Celtic war goddesses Morrigan, Macha, and Badb for mystical assistance.

Doctor Druid also possesses various yogic abilities, including control over involuntary functions of his body such as his heartbeat, respiration, bleeding, and reaction to pain.

In his latest and final incarnation, when he was called only "Druid", he has been seen manipulating fire,[volume & issue needed] and making a tree instantaneously grow in a person's stomach from the seeds of an eaten apple.

The previous reprints below were edited to reflect name-change to "Doctor Druid" plus other retcons: In an alternate future, detailed in the Killraven series, Martians had come to Earth and wiped out much of humanity.

Doctor Druid is one of the few survivors of the North American battles and leads a resistance movement based in Ireland.

Druid plays a key role in issue #3 (Dec. 2008) in which he uses his staff, the Monkey's Paw, to control the realm created by Doctor Strange.

[31] During the Secret Wars storyline, a variation of Doctor Druid appears in the Battleworld domain of Technopolis.